Woke up to the alarm, had a nice breakfast, packed everything up, spent a few challenging moments getting out of our camping space, stopped and the RV and then went on our way! Stopped at Wauchula to shop a the Wal-mart and the Tractor Supply (for horse treats, of course!) Before arriving at Highlands Hammock State Park, apparently the oldest State Park in Florida. Technically, their horse camp is closed, because they’ve build a new one, but the new one isn’t open yet because the county won’t let them open it until they put in a new, second RV dump (they already have on the the main campground). Despite that, a friendly ranger named Steve agreed to let us come into the old horse camp for a few days. After checking in at the ranger station, we were directed through the main campground, north of the maintenance buildings. There was one rather scary stretch of road that we stopped to examine before venturing in, because it was pretty deep soft sand, and the last thing we wanted to do was get stuck. The ranger station’s advice was "don’t stop," sage advice for anyone who’s ever dealt with suggar sand! Anyway, we made it through, though there were a couple of harrowing spots when the wheels started juddering, but we just kept moving and managed to make it okay There’s one fresh water spigot and a trough here, along with a number of high line posts in position. There was a day trailer here when we arrived, and we chatted with them a minute before they left. Didn’t take long to get everything set up and ready, so much earlier than usual we didn’t know what to do with ourselves! Happy to say I have a great cell phone signal here, so I did some work on the internet, then we settled down for the evening, using our generator for the first time in quite a while.
Woke up to the alarm, had a nice breakfast, packed everything up, spent a few challenging moments getting out of our camping space, stopped and the RV and then went on our way! Stopped at Wauchula to shop a the Wal-mart and the Tractor Supply (for horse treats, of course!) Before arriving at Highlands Hammock State Park, apparently the oldest State Park in Florida. Technically, their horse camp is closed, because they’ve build a new one, but the new one isn’t open yet because the county won’t let them open it until they put in a new, second RV dump (they already have on the the main campground). Despite that, a friendly ranger named Steve agreed to let us come into the old horse camp for a few days. After checking in at the ranger station, we were directed through the main campground, north of the maintenance buildings. There was one rather scary stretch of road that we stopped to examine before venturing in, because it was pretty deep soft sand, and the last thing we wanted to do was get stuck. The ranger station’s advice was "don’t stop," sage advice for anyone who’s ever dealt with suggar sand! Anyway, we made it through, though there were a couple of harrowing spots when the wheels started juddering, but we just kept moving and managed to make it okay There’s one fresh water spigot and a trough here, along with a number of high line posts in position. There was a day trailer here when we arrived, and we chatted with them a minute before they left. Didn’t take long to get everything set up and ready, so much earlier than usual we didn’t know what to do with ourselves! Happy to say I have a great cell phone signal here, so I did some work on the internet, then we settled down for the evening, using our generator for the first time in quite a while.
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